Remember the USA Dream Team..forget that shit! Nigeria stuns Team USA basketball in Olympic tune-up for one of biggest upsets in international history
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I didn’t watch the game but they have too many elite scorers to lose to anybody. That’s crazy that they lost. KD, Beal, Dame an Tatum. That’s a lot of firepower
Kevin Durant is so overrated as a leader it ain't even funny.
Some guys are non vocal and lead by example.
But I've never heard anyone say that Kevin Durant was a leader, The best player in league but not a vocal leader.
An athlete may be the best player on a team but it does not mean he has the vocal or communication skills to motivate his teammates to perform better.
For example Kwai Leonard, Kevin Durant, are the best on their team and Dereck Rose was the best player on his team when he played for Chicago but these guys were not the players that huddled their teammates together to give them the "Rah Rah, We can do it guys !" speech.
Who was a good non vocal leader? You can be the best at your job but it is the person who speaks up and socialize that will get all the respect.
I agree. KD is massively overrated outside of scoring. He is one of the best of this era but his name and legacy won't transcend it. People still make top 10 scorer lists that don't include him because nobody thinks he's better than anyone. His fans will only pit him against LeBron to have somebody to root against him but it's mainly delusion at this point.
Hakeem and Pat Ewing are wanna be "yanks"
It makes absolutely no sense for Ewing to play Basketball for Jamaica.
Basketball on the national level wasn't even taken seriously.
Good Point.
Exactly
He could've made it a thing and used his influence. Same for Duncan and the Virgin Islands team, or Hakeem with Nigeria. Point is they were and are proud Americans, "the white people of the diaspora" and no Islander or African calls them coons or sellouts. Then those same folks will gaslight us for repping our native country which is hypocritical.
Sad, ain't it?
I know his numbers. I have watched him play this year and through out his career. I didn't explain the "Why Not Harden" ... again chemistry is an issue that I feel would exist even more.
Not really, Jamaicans treat basketball the same way Americans treat soccer.
THIS... here is the thing... who makes their teammates better??? Who is a TRUE leader?
Durant shot them out of the game by the way and it was too late when he started hitting shots.
TEAM USA is like a Super AAU team that can be defeated by a talented team who has played together and are truly a TEAM and want to win with no ego.
Sadly, it speaks to a heartbreaking inferiority complex.
On the part of islanders and Africans yes. Waving flags and repping countries they absolutely don't want to live in while living in America.
I think you out of touch with some of those guys. JErami Grant is a baller as is Bam and Jrue....Kevin Love is a How Sway I agree. But from the looks of things....he's the only semi-healthy cac and they know their "Team USA" gotta have a cac on it.
Is that why its always the same posters on bgol who obsess about turning everything into a lineage flex?
When ADOS proudly reps the country our ancestors bled, died, and fought wars for and raises our flags up we are called "the white people of the diaspora" and are told we "not really American, just a lost tribe of Africans"
When the anchor babies pledge allegiance to the flag for citizenship and play for the US over their home "majority Black" countries, it's crickets from the "Pan Africanists" and anti-ADOS.
Jamaica has an olympic basketball team?
Islanders and Africans always lineage flex when one of them reaches a plateau or achievement. It doesn't bother me or rub me the wrong way at all. If it did THAT would be an inferiority complex. What's wrong with taking pride in one's lineage? If Hakeem and Ewing are more proud to be American than Nigerian or Jamaican, that's OK too. Just don't gaslight people who are ethnically American when they do the same.
They have a team that competes in FIBA, yes. Now if they've ever qualified is another story.
I didn't say he wasn't a top notch defender, but you said he is arguably the best in the league. No he's not. You got to be a perennial 1st all defensive player to be argued; or at least be 1st team this year an finish top 3
It's going to suck when you die a virgin
This....
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Islanders and Africans always lineage flex when one of them reaches a plateau or achievement. It doesn't bother me or rub me the wrong way at all. If it did THAT would be an inferiority complex. What's wrong with taking pride in one's lineage? If Hakeem and Ewing are more proud to be American than Nigerian or Jamaican, that's OK too. Just don't gaslight people who are ethnically American when they do the same.
Sure except theres a difference with taking pride in one's lineage and crying about an immigrant that made your national team. THAT is an inferiority complex.
I'm not out of touch at all... Once Devin Booker arrives Jrue will just be on the bench. BAM is a good player and perhaps I shouldn't have said "HOW SWAY? " to him... but he didn't change the outcome last night.
I did see Draymond locking cats down, blocking shots etc...
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